Improvement in machines for cutting tobacco



L. F. HILDEBRAND.

Tobacco Cut ter.

No. 59,015. Patented Oct 23, 1866.

N STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS F. HILDEBRAND, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR-CUTTING TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5?,015, dated October 23, 186 6. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIs F. HILDEBRAND, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Machine for Cutting Tobacco; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective representation of my machine.

The nature of myinvention relates to a handmachine to be used in cutting small quantities of leaf-tobacco for individual or plantation use; and its nature consists in making an inclined trough so arranged that the tobacco put therein will require but little forward pressure in order to bring the proper quantity under the knife, and in the use of a metallic roller attached to a circular face-plate at the mouth of the trough, so arranged that the tobacco may be suitably pressed before being operated'upon by the knife; and, further, in providing a sliding cutting-block, so arranged that after any portion of it has been defaced by the knife it may he slid under the cutting-trough and present a new surface.

By this arrangement a suitable, cheap, and

convenient device .is furnished for cutting either smoking or chewing tobacco, and is so simple that little or no skill is required in operating it.

A represents the trough or cutting-box, which may be made of any suitable wood. It will be seen that the mouth or front end of the box is cut away at the top in the form of a half-circle, so as to make a suitable place for holding the tobacco, the back portion of the trough inclining upward and terminating at B.

The object of making this inclination in the trough is to save a portion of the labor required in forcing the tobacco under the knife D. 0 represents the metallic face-plate secured to the end of the trough A, used, as in common cutting-boxes, to guide the knife.

E shows projections on the face-plate 0, through which the bearings of the roller F pass. The object of this roller is to compress the tobacco before passing through the opening in the face plate 0 and under the knife D.

G shows the cutting-block, which checks the downward motion of the knife after the tobacco has been cut. This block is fitted into the bed of the machine by means of a dovetail, in

order that it may be made to present a new surface to the knife after any portion of the block has been cut away.

Operation: The tobacco must be put in the trough A and pressed, by means of the hand, under the knife D as fast as required, in the usual manner of cuttingboxes.

Having thus described my device, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, isy The combination of the trough A, face-plate (l, the roller F, knife D, and the cutting-block G, substantially as set forth.

L. F. HILDEBRAND.

Witnesses: GEO. Ronnns,

H. O. Goonnrcn. 

